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Image:Mozilla logo.gif thumb|200px|Mozilla logo '''Mozilla''' is a computer term that has had many different uses, though all of them have been related to Netscape Communications Corporation and its related application software. The various uses of Mozilla (all of which can be referred to by using just the term "Mozilla") are listed below in the order when they were first used:

Codename of Netscape Navigator
{{main|Netscape Navigator}} Mozilla is a trademark of the Mozilla Foundation and historically had been used internally as a codename for the Netscape Navigator web browser from its beginning. It was a contraction of ''Mosaic killer'', referring to the hope that the project would unseat Mosaic (web browser) Mosaic as the web's most popular browser, and a reference to the name of the fictional monster ''Godzilla''.

Mascot of Netscape
Image:Mozilla Lizard - Splash.jpg thumb|The Mozilla mascot for Netscape Mozilla was the mascot of the now-disbanded Netscape Communications Corporation, formerly called Mosaic Communications Corporation. It had a close relationship with the Mozilla codename. Initially, the mascot took various forms, including that of a helmeted astronaut or "spaceman", but the eventual choice of a Godzilla-like lizard was no doubt thought to go well with the Godzilla-like name. It takes the form of a cute green and purple cartoon lizard. It was designed by Dave Titus in 1994. Mozilla featured prominently on Netscape's website in the company's early years. However, the need to project a more 'professional' image (especially towards corporate clients) led to it being removed. Mozilla continued to be used inside Netscape, though, often featured on T-shirts given to staff or on artwork adorning the walls of the Netscape campus in Mountain View, California Mountain View. When Netscape acquired the website directory NewHoo in 1998, they rebranded it the Open Directory Project with the nickname "dmoz" (Directory of Mozilla) due to its similarility to the Mozilla project. An image of Mozilla was placed on every page of the site, which remains the case today, despite Netscape's disbanding after its acquisition by America Online AOL.

Part of user agent string of many browsers
{{main|User agent string}} When users visit a website (via a user agent like web browser), a text string (computer science) string is generally sent to identify the user agent to the web server. It is known as "user agent string". The Netscape web browser identified itself as "Mozilla/" followed by some information about the operating system it was running on. Because the Netscape browser initially implemented many features not available in other browsers and quickly came to dominate the market, a number of web sites were designed to only work, or work fully, when they detected an appropriate version of Mozilla in the user agent string. Thus, competing browsers began to emulate (cloaking cloak or "spoofing attack spoof") this string in order to also work with those sites. The earliest example of this is Internet Explorer's use of a user agent string beginning "Mozilla/ (compatible; MSIE ...", in order to receive content intended for Netscape, its main rival at the time of its development. This format of user agent string has since been copied by other user agents, and persists today even though Explorer has come to dominate the browser market. {{seealso|Browser wars}}

Mozilla project

Mozilla Foundation
Image:Mozilla Foundation logo.png right|Mozilla Foundation logo {{main|Mozilla Foundation}} "Mozilla" is sometimes used to refer to the free software / open source software project that was founded in order to create the next-generation internet suite for Netscape. The Mozilla Organization was founded in 1998 to create the new suite. On July 15, 2003, the organization was formally registered as a not-for-profit organization, and became Mozilla Foundation. The foundation now creates and maintains the Mozilla Firefox browser and Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail application, among other products.

Mozilla Corporation
{{main|Mozilla Corporation}} On August 3, 2005, Mozilla Foundation announced the creation of Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned taxable subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation, that will focus on delivering Firefox and Thunderbird to end users. It will also oversee marketing and sponsorships of the products.

Mozilla Application Suite
{{main|Mozilla Application Suite}} Image:Mozilla 1.7.png thumb|Mozilla 1.7.8 displaying 's main page In March 1998, Netscape released most of the code base for its popular Netscape Communicator internet suite under an open source license. The name of the application developed from this was named as ''Mozilla'', as it was used as the codename of the original Netscape Navigator. After a series of lengthy pre-1.0 cycles, Mozilla 1.0 was released on June 5, 2002. The suite was well known as the open source base of the Netscape (web browser) Netscape suite (versions 6 and 7), and its underlying code base (most notably the Gecko (layout engine) Gecko layout engine) became the base of many standalone applications, including the Mozilla Foundation's flagship products Mozilla Firefox Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird Thunderbird. To distinguish the suite from the standalone products, the suite is often marketed as "Mozilla Suite", or the more lengthy "Mozilla Application Suite". The last official series of the suite is 1.7.x. Mozilla Foundation will no longer release new versions of the suite, so that developers can focus on Firefox and Thunderbird. The suite will be unofficially superseded by SeaMonkey, an Internet suite developed by the Mozilla community that is based on the source code of the Mozilla Suite.

A collective name for all Mozilla-based browsers
For simplicity, the word ''Mozilla'' is often used to refer to all Mozilla-based browsers. For example, when it is said that a website is usable by Mozilla browsers, it means that it is usable by Mozilla Suite, Firefox, Camino, Netscape 6, etc. In some older Internet statistics programs, the term "Netscape 5.x" is incorrectly used to refer to these browsers because the user agent string starts with Mozilla/5.0.

Mozilla application framework
{{main|Mozilla application framework}} The term "Mozilla" is also used to refer to the Mozilla application framework, a cross-platform application framework for writing applications that can run on multiple operating systems. It consists most notably of the Gecko layout engine, but also the XUL user-interface toolkit, the Necko networking library, and other components. This is the core that all Mozilla-based browsers and applications are built from.

See also
{{portalpar|Free software}} *Netscape *The Book of Mozilla *Mozilla Public License

External links

- Mozilla Corporation
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{| align="CENTER" class="boilerplate" id="fairuse" style="width:80%; background-color:#F1F1DE; border:2px solid #996; padding:5px;" | Image:Mozilla-copyright.png 75px|Copyright undetermined | ''This is a '''logo''' for either the Mozilla Firefox browser or the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark by the Mozilla Foundation and/or its subsidiary Mozilla Corporation. ''It is believed that we have permission to use this for promotional purposes; e.g., on a user page. From a Mozilla FAQ: "Can I put Firefox or Thunderbird banners on my website? Can I link to you?" Answer: "Thanks for your support :-) Of course you may. We have button programs for exactly this:"[http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/faq.html]. From [http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/buttons.html mozilla.org] "Put one or more of these buttons on your website to help us spread the word about Firefox. We appreciate it!"'' |}
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